THE IMPACT OF FOREIGN POLICY ON NIGERIAN DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF BUHARI’S BORDER CLOSURE (2015–2023)

ABSTRACT The Impact of Foreign Policy on Nigerian Development: A Study of Buhari’s Border Closure (2015–2023) against the study between the three objectives which are to analyse the factors that led to Buhari Board closure from 2019-2023, to examine the effect of Buhari Boarder closure policy on the economy of Nigeria and to analyse the socio-political impact of border closure in Nigeria. Against this, the researcher used exploratory design, employed qualitative technique in which in-depth interview guide was used to collect information from the respondents. Purposive sampling technique was adopted to select 8 informants from four institutions for the interview. The data from the interview were thematically content analyzed. The results indicated that President Muhammadu Buhari have implemented several foreign policies under his supervision from 2019-2023. Among these policies are the Border Closure, Bi-lateral Agreement with close countries like Chad, Ghana, Niger, etc. the study The study concluded that Nigeria’s foreign policy under the civil administration of Mohammadu Buhari lacks national interest orientation in itself. Therefore the nation had even gone against the public opinion of her citizens in the attempt to protect the selfish interest of some politicians in Nigeria. Thus based on the findings the study recommended that Federal Government should employ aggressive approach in tackling insecurity in Nigeria by mandating immediate community policy across the country, providing adequate fund for training, remuneration and modern security gadgets for security personnel for prompt response of crime, prevention, detecting and arresting of banditry and criminal elements disturbing the peace of this country.